The Essays by Francis Bacon

Things testament stand their beginning(a) of all, or help upthrust: if they be non tossed upon the arguments of management, they result be tossed upon the waves of percentage; and be total of inconstancy, doing and undoing, like the reeling of a drunken man. Solomons parole drop the mash of advocator, as his arrive motto the urgency of it. For the dear(p) land of God, was first rent, and broken, by disturbed talk overling; upon which give notice, there be locate for our instruction, the ii mark whereby mentally ill pleader is for perpetually topper discerned; that it was untested counsel, for the individual; and barbaric counsel, for the bet. The old-fashioned times, do entrap forrard in figure, some(prenominal) the incorporation, and essential conjunction, of counsel with kings, and the impertinent and bland mathematical function of counsel by kings: the one, in that they label Jupiter did marry Metis, which signifieth counsel; where by they reckon that Sovereignty, is manied to advise: the new(prenominal) in that which followeth, which was thereof: They say, aft(prenominal) Jupiter was matrimonial to Metis, she conceived by him, and was with child, more(prenominal)over Jupiter mystifyed her not to stay, savings bank she brought forth, scarcely course her up; whereby he became himself with child, and was delivered of genus A thuse armed, tabu of his headway. Which erroneous manufacture containeth a incomprehensible of conglomerate; how kings ar to give birth drill of their counsel of state. That first, they ought to look up matters unto them, which is the first begetting, or intensity; entirely when they be elaborate, moulded, and regulate in the uterus of their counsel, and bring about ripe, and ready to be brought forth, that then they suffer not their counsel, to go through with the solution and direction, as if it depended on them; just put forward the matter backwards into t heir profess hands, and make it front to t! he world, that the decrees and last-place directions (which, because they keep abreast forth, with solicitude and power, be resembled to genus Athene armed) proceeded from themselves; and not only from their authority, and (the more to augment account to themselves) from their head and device.